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1 online resource (vii, 179 pages) |
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Psychological issues, v. 3, no. 2. monograph 10 |
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Psychological issues ; monograph 10
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"The central aim of this monograph was to re-examine the place of topographic concepts in psychoanalytic theory and their relationship to the psychoanalytic theory of systems. The topographic theory was introduced by Freud in The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and revised somewhat in the metapsychological papers of 1915-1917. The structural theory was introduced in The Ego and the Id in 1923 and has since then, though with many amplifications, remained in psychoanalytic theory as the hypothesis of the systems into which the mental apparatus is divided. In discussions of the relationship between the concepts of topography and structure, several different levels of theory must be distinguished. The most general is that of the metapsychological points of view which subsume any discussion of topography or structure. The next more specific level is that of the particular topographic and structural theories which Freud advanced. The next more specific level is that of the particular systems described by Freud. The topographic systems Pcs., Ucs., and Cs. are part of the topographic theory; and the structural systems id, ego, and superego are part of the structural theory. It is generally agreed that the topographic systems were replaced by the structural systems, but it has not been clear whether there should be a topographic point of view in addition to a structural one. Furthermore, what role topographic concepts should continue to play in psychoanalytic theory--in fact just what phenomena should be subsumed under the designation topographic--has also not been clear"--Book. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-171) |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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PsycBOOKS (EBSCO) EBSCO |
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis
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psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalyse.
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Electronic book
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